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Fixing TV aerials in Whitstable
Most aerial faults in Whitstable start with the sea. We replace salt-eaten cable and fittings, straighten storm-bent poles and get your Freeview back, usually the same day.
Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Whitstable most days.
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What goes wrong with Whitstable aerials
On the streets nearest the beach, from Island Wall round to Marine Parade, we often find connectors at the aerial head that have turned green and crumbly within five years. Once salt gets into the joint the signal leaks away slowly, so the picture gets worse over months rather than failing overnight. We cut back to clean copper, fit sealed compression plugs and wrap the joint so it lasts.
Tankerton sits higher and takes the full force of north-easterly gales coming across the estuary. After a stormy week we get calls about aerials that have twisted on the pole and now point at Sheppey instead of Dover. Re-aiming takes minutes, but we also replace the clamps, because a clamp that slipped once will slip again.
What we can fix in Whitstable
We carry the common parts on the van, so most Whitstable repairs are finished on the first visit. You get the price before we start.
Realigning a turned aerial
Wind and slipped clamps turn aerials off the transmitter. We re-aim on a meter and fit new clamps.
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New cable and connectors
Cracked coax and corroded plugs replaced with double-screened cable and sealed compression fittings.
Amplifiers and splitters
Failed, overloaded or unpowered loft amplifiers tested, adjusted or replaced so every room works.
Storm damage
Fallen, bent or hanging aerials made safe, then refitted on a stronger pole, with photos for your insurer.
A new aerial when it’s beyond saving
If the aerial itself has failed, we fit a new one aimed at the right transmitter and test every channel.
Satellite dish faults
No satellite signal on Sky or Freesat? See our Whitstable satellite page.
What’s wrong with the picture in Whitstable?
Choose what your screen is doing. The panel shows the usual culprit and lights up the part of the house where it normally is.
Every channel says “No signal”
- Usual cause
- Usually a connector that has worked loose behind the TV or at the aerial, a loft amplifier that has died, or an aerial knocked off its bearing by the wind.
- What we do
- We check the signal at three points, the TV socket, the loft and the mast, so we replace only the part that has gone.
Pixelating or freezing when it’s wet or windy
- Usual cause
- Rainwater getting into tired coax, connectors eaten by salt air on the coast, or a mast clamp that has slipped so the aerial rocks.
- What we do
- New double-screened cable, sealed compression fittings and the clamps done up properly.
A handful of channels have vanished
- Usual cause
- An aerial made before the frequency changes, one pointing at the wrong mast for your street, or 4G and 5G from a nearby phone mast swamping the amplifier.
- What we do
- A meter reading on each multiplex tells us which. Then it is a realign, a filter or a modern wideband aerial.
Freesat or Sky can’t find the satellite
- Usual cause
- A dish nudged off target by a gale or a ladder, a failed LNB (the part on the arm), or a waterlogged cable.
- What we do
- We peak the dish on a meter, then swap the LNB or the cable if they have failed.
One room has a picture, another doesn’t
- Usual cause
- A loose wall plate, a dead output on the splitter or amplifier, or damage somewhere along that room’s cable.
- What we do
- We follow that cable from the room back to the loft and repair the fault we find.
Seeing something different? Send us a picture of the TV and an engineer will have a look.
Repair questions from Whitstable
Local answers for Whitstable. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.
Why does my Whitstable TV pixelate only in wet weather?
Water is getting into the cable or a joint, and salt makes it worse. When the coax is wet its loss goes up and the weaker channels drop out. Replacing the damaged section and sealing the connectors normally cures it.
Can you fix the aerial on a Whitstable fisherman’s cottage with a tiny roof?
Yes. Many of the cottages near the harbour have small, steep roofs and no chimney. We work from a ladder or a short tower and can move the aerial to a wall bracket if the old fixing has rotted.
Do you cover Seasalter and Chestfield for repairs?
Yes, both are part of our normal Whitstable round, along with Swalecliffe and Yorkletts. Same-day visits are usually possible.
Quicker with a picture
Snap the aerial or dish from the garden, or the error on the TV, and WhatsApp it to us with your postcode. An engineer looks at it and replies with the likely fix and a price.
WhatsApp a photoWe also repair aerials around Whitstable
Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Whitstable, see the Whitstable area page or our Whitstable satellite page.
Talk to a Canterbury engineer
Ring the office, or WhatsApp us a picture of the roof, the dish or whatever your TV is showing. Most of the time we can say what the fault is and give you a price there and then.
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- Canterbury, since 2000
- Open
- Monday to Saturday, 8am to 7pm
- Where
- Every part of Kent: Thanet, the coast, Medway, Maidstone, Ashford and the Weald
- Cost
- Repairs from £99. Fixed quotes for everything else